Books should be uncensored for they teach what parents are afraid of teaching their children while they’re young. However, some people have opposing perspectives that certain books depict inappropriate imagery or implications for younger age groups. Restricting access to books, however, will cause younger groups to be hit harder by the face of reality rather than easing into what reality becomes as they grow up into adulthood. Books give necessary information to children that is important for dealing with situations that appear as an adult. As stated in text 1, “‘Protecting’ children from the difficult realities of the world is an exercise of futility - and privilege” (paragraph twenty three). In addition to this idea, the analogy of ‘making
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However, opposing perspectives would claim that books need to banned due to their captivating lure for the unexpected or wrong age groups. As stated by Text 6, the paragraph states, “ When parents complain about what their children read, it shows that books are doing their jobs: affecting young readers so much that they are transformed. It’s scary to think … of a country where books are so irrelevant, parents don’t even care enough to complain” (fifth paragraph). In contrast to this idea, books shouldn’t be censored for what books provide can be information that isn’t relatively common in schools. As stated in Text 4, the paragraph states, “ ‘The community does not want to talk about sex, abortion, or prostitutes since it is largely pro-life and pro-abstinence. You should probably skip exposing your children to an investigation of the structural conditions that drive poverty and homelessness if you’re living in a ten million dollar home, and there are many of those where I come from, and many families who head enormous oil and real estate companies’ “ (third paragraph). While exposing the community to “sex, prostitution and abortion” is wrong, this then just means the minority that chose to complain about the distributor of these books are in the wrong, not necessarily the book itself. These books that present these topics are clearly made for a completely different age group, …show more content…
To those who learn of certain topics are given two choices: to do something about that knowledge of information or to withhold their comments and ignore it completely. Those who choose to take action with the knowledge they’ve gained can become dangerous, and those who ignore it realize what the impact of the knowledge they’ve learned and deduced so
However, opposing perspectives would claim that books need to banned due to their captivating lure for the unexpected or wrong age groups. As stated by Text 6, the paragraph states, “ When parents complain about what their children read, it shows that books are doing their jobs: affecting young readers so much that they are transformed. It’s scary to think … of a country where books are so irrelevant, parents don’t even care enough to complain” (fifth paragraph). In contrast to this idea, books shouldn’t be censored for what books provide can be information that isn’t relatively common in schools. As stated in Text 4, the paragraph states, “ ‘The community does not want to talk about sex, abortion, or prostitutes since it is largely pro-life and pro-abstinence. You should probably skip exposing your children to an investigation of the structural conditions that drive poverty and homelessness if you’re living in a ten million dollar home, and there are many of those where I come from, and many families who head enormous oil and real estate companies’ “ (third paragraph). While exposing the community to “sex, prostitution and abortion” is wrong, this then just means the minority that chose to complain about the distributor of these books are in the wrong, not necessarily the book itself. These books that present these topics are clearly made for a completely different age group, …show more content…
To those who learn of certain topics are given two choices: to do something about that knowledge of information or to withhold their comments and ignore it completely. Those who choose to take action with the knowledge they’ve gained can become dangerous, and those who ignore it realize what the impact of the knowledge they’ve learned and deduced so